"Perhaps you saw that ad during the Superbowl in which eco-enforcing "Green Police" seem to run a police state of sorts. They arrest a man for choosing plastic bags at the checkout counter, storm a house for a battery discarded in the garbage, and handcuff another man on his front porch in a "light bulb crackdown." He'd installed incandescent — rather than, presumably, compact fluorescent — light bulbs."

The just-out Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue was shot -- where else? -- on the beaches of the Maldives Islands, which are threatened by climate-related sea-level rise. Objectification of women is drawing less protest than the objectification of islands.